Overall, 44% say they approve of Trump's handling of the presidency, 54% disapprove.
That 44% marker puts Trump last among approval ratings for newly-elected presidents at the 100-day point since modern polling began, a trendline that runs back to Dwight Eisenhower.
Trump is last by a significant margin, trailing Bill Clinton's previous low by 11 points.

Trump re-announced yesterday his campaign promises about tax cuts. But without any firm details about how he would fund the cuts or any firm implementation dates so there was no positive reaction in the markets.

Trump also announced he would not implement his campaign promise to cancel NAFTA; instead he will "re-negotiate".

Of course you can say that but it does not really help to understand how well the 9th performs.
For example, in the 12 months leading up to March, 31, 2015, just under 12,000 cases were filed in the 9th Circuit. Despite that gigantic docket, the Supreme Court heard just 11 cases from the 9th Circuit in 2015, reversing eight.

So Trump tweeting "the Ninth Circuit, which has a terrible record of being overturned" is just another Trump lie.

While a lie in the absolute sense it's not that far from the truth - I would rate this as a half-truth.

Here's an analysis by the American Bar Association (americanbar.org) on 1999-2008. I find the grading on the first and the charts on the last page the most informative.

What I find striking:
i) 9th is by far the largest circuit
ii) 9th has the 3rd highest review rate
iii) 9th has the 2nd highest reversal rate
iv) only the Federal Circuit has worse review and reversal rates (ranks 2nd and 1st, respectively)

Perhaps i-iii are correlated? Perhaps funding can't keep up with rising number of cases so quality deteriorates? Current trends in politics (budget cuts and and leaving positions empty aren't exactly new) may well be instrumental in what Trump complains about but of course he doesn't say.

From the Federal Bar Assiciation (fedbar.org):
"The FBA has urged Congressional appropriations leaders to approve the Federal Judiciary's emergency request for $73 million in current year funding to mitigate the impact of automatic budget cuts."
"The Federal Judiciary publicly announced the transmittal of its request to OMB for a $72.9 million emergency supplemental appropriation. Read the letter of transmittal."
"FBA Leaders Urge Congress to Act on Court Funding, Judicial Vacancies"

You can cut spending only so far without facing the consequences.

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BBC Hard Talk is repeating old programmes at the moment to celebrate its 20-year anniversary, and I caught the last few minutes of this 1998 interview with Donald Trump the other day. He actually seemed rather sane and reasonable.

House GOP leaders, despite a furious push Thursday, were unable to wrangle the votes necessary to move forward on their latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The development short-circuits, yet again, the House effort to repeal the cornerstone domestic achievement of President Barack Obama.

It guarantees President Donald Trump will be without a cornerstone legislative achievement on his 100th day in office -- a symbolic moment that the White House has focused on intently in recent days as negotiations on a revised health care proposal accelerated.

It will be a tremendous diplomatic achievement for Trump if he does eventually get this legislation through the House.
The issue is there are two opposing groups of Republicans; Conservatives and moderates, if Trump makes a concession to one side then he just makes it harder for the other side to agree.
Needs a very clever diplomat to negotiate this one.

Anyway if it passes in the House there is no guarantee it will pass in the Senate

I think he has the ability to evolve, but for me I wonder how much the Republicans can evolve as a party to get things done. It seems the conservative and moderate factions are hindering their own party and president more effectively than the Democrats could dream of doing.

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"Trump rallies supporters in Pennsylvania " He still seems to be in election mode, repeating campaign promises, bashing Democrats and fake news.

There was an Emerson poll back in February that claimed more people believed the White House than main stream media.

If that is still so then it will be good for Trump's mid term election hopes.

Where that leaves the US in the greater scheme of things I do not know; where will people find the "truth" after Trump has gone?

Many people cannot evaluate which internet sources are reputable and most of the sources are "straw men" with few financial assets.
At least the main stream media can be sued if they step too far out of line; look at the $3 million it is claimed the Daily Mail paid Melanie Trump.